The Latest Breaking News from Health Care

A flagship Democratic economic bill is perched on the edge of House passage

Demand for health care is soaring as the population ages, medical treatments become more widely available and more people live with chronic and complex illnesses.

Vice President Kamala Harris excoriated the Supreme Court’s recent decision peel back of five decades of federal abortion protections, calling its precedent-busting shift a “health care crisis” during a visit Thursday to her old San Francisco Bay Area stomping grounds.

“There is a real contrast here, and that contrast will be in front of the country this fall as it looks towards who will lead going forward”

Iraq's government has agreed to continue supplying Lebanon's electricity company with heavy fuel oil for another year, Lebanon's caretaker prime minister said on Thursday, alleviating pressure on Lebanon's struggling power grid. Najib Mikati said he had made the request to Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who agreed to extend the…

The Inflation Reduction Act is not expected to bring down inflation dramatically or right away, but experts say that might not be such a bad thing given the bill's other areas of focus.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gavin Newsom is fed up with Republicans for attacking abortion rights and blocking gun regulations — and with his own Democratic Party for failing to boldly and brashly take on the conservative right and push a progressive agenda.

Amid the ongoing economic turbulence, sectors like healthcare, which enjoy inelastic demand and can pass on an increase in cost to end consumers, make a good investment option. Moreover, rising chronic diseases, an aging population, and increased healthcare spending should drive the sector’s growth. So, it could be the right…

WASHINGTON — In a packed room of veterans, lawmakers and advocates, President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act into law Wednesday. The act was a personal victory for the president, and for a Texas couple who began the fight for the bill 13 years ago.

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — In a growing number of U.S. states, people can both drink alcohol and legally smoke recreational marijuana. In others, they can use alcohol but not pot. But on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the opposite is true: Marijuana is legal, but booze is…

When I first was outed at age 14, I realized I would have to learn how to navigate a world that didn’t fully accept me. Part of that was figuring out how to access health care as a gay person and a minor at odds with his parents. Though my…